Combination-tool.



No. 000,204. Patented Oct. 23, I900.

0 w. E. SEELYE.

COMBINATION TOOL.

(Applicatipn filed Sept. 12, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM EDWARD SEELYE, OF BRAINERD, MINNESOTA.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660,204, dated October 23, 1900.

Application filed September 1.2, 1899. Serial No. 730,231. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I 4

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM EDWARD SEELYE, of Brainerd, in the county of Crow WVing and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Combination-Tool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved combination-tool, more especially designed for the use of hunters, timber-cruisers, explorers, &c., and combining a hunting-ax with a knife removable from the aX-handle to permit of using either the ax or vthe knife separately whenever desired.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims. 7

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement with parts in section. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the knife-spring, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the knife detached from the ax and with the blade-in an open position.

The improved combination-tool consists, essentially, of an ax A and a knife B, having a handle 0, com mon to both, but made in sections 0 C of which the section 0 is preferably integral With the aX-head A, and the section 0 forms the handle or casing for the blade B of the knife B. The blade B is pivoted at the outer end of the section (3 and is pressed on at its fulcrum end by the free end of a spring D, secured to the section (3 and formed at its fixed end with a collar D and a reduced screw-rod D screwing in an internal thread 0 formed in the outer end of the section 0, a pin D extending from the said screw-rod into a socket O likewise formed in the end of the section 0. Thus by turning the section 0 the screw-rod D readily screws into theouter end of the handle-section 0, so that the section O forms acontinuation of the section 0 to produce a complete ax-handle for the ax A; but when the section 0 is removed the ax may also be used with the handle-section O as the handle only. The.

free end or point of the blade B is adapted to engage a lined recess E in the outer end of the section 0, so that when the knife-section O is in position on the section 0 and the blade Bis closed then the section O is locked against accidental unscrewing from the section 0 by the point of the knife-blade B engaging said recess E. As shown in Fig. 3, the spring D, with the collar D, the screw-rod D and pin D are formed of a single piece.

When the several parts are assembled, as shown in Fig. 1, the combination-tool may be used as an ax in the usual manner or as a knife by opening the blade B; but, as previously mentioned, the sections 0 and C may be disconnected from each other to permit of using the ax or the knifeindependent one of the other.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 7 1. A combination-tool, comprising an arc and a'knife, with a handle common to both and'made in sections removably connected with each other, one section being for the ax and the other for the knife, the blade of the knife when closed, serving to lock the sec-.

tions against accident-a1 disconnection, substantially as shown and described.

2. A combination-tool, comprising an ax and a knife, with a handle common to both and made in sections removably connected with each other, one section being for the ax and the other for the knife, the sections being locked against accidental disconnection by the free end of the knife-blade, when the latter is in a closed position, substantially as shown and described.

3. A combination-tool, comprising an an engage with its free end a lined recess in the arc-handle, substantially as shown and described.

5. The combination with the handle of an ax or the like, of a knife handle or casing removably connected with the aX-handle by a rotary connection and provided with a blade, the end of which is adapted to engage the end of the ax-handle to lock the parts together, substantially as described.

6. The combination with the handle of an ax or the like having a threaded socket and and at its other end with a screw-threaded rod screwing" into the socket of the ax-ham die, the end of the blade of the knife normally engaging the recess of the ax-handle and locking;v the parts together, snbstan tiall y as described.

' WILLIAM EDWARD SEELYE. Witnesses P. J. MURPHY, JAMES M. ELDER. 

